The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-20

Spain, the blood is so they are not tempted
to fiery liquids. The great Roman armies
never drank anything stronger than water
tinged with vinegar, but under ournorthern
climate the temptation to heating stimu-
lants is most mighty and millions succumb.
When mans habits go wrong the church
drops him, the social circle drops him,
good influences drop him, we all drop him.
or all the men who get off track but few
ever get on again. Near my summer resi-
dence there is life saving station on the
beach. There are all the rones and rockets,
the boats, the machinery Tor getting peO-
pie off shipwrecks. Summer before last
saw there fifteen or twenty men who
were breal1fasting after having just es.
capped with their lives and nothing more.
Up and down our coasts are built these
useful structures, and the mariners know
it and they feel that if they are driven into
the breakers there will be apt from shore
to come a rescue. The churches of God
ought to be so many life saving stations,
not so much to help those who are in
smooth waters, but those who have been
shipwrecked. Come, let MS run out the
life boats? And who will man them? We
do not preach enough to such men; We
have not enough faith in their released
Alas if when they come to hear US we are
laboriously trying 10 show the difference
between sublapsarianism and supralap-
sarianism, while they have a thousand
vipers of remorse and despair coll
ing around and biting their immortal
spirits. The church is not chiefly for
goodish sort of men whose proclivities are
all right and who could get to heaven pray
ing and singing in their own homes. 1t ia
on the beach to hel p the drowning, Those
hoI ha hat NnH hlTao n
take hold of. lie can save big sinner as
well as a small sinner, and when man
calls earnestly to God for help He will go
out to deliver such n one. If it were nee
essary God would come down from the
sky, followed by all the artillery of heaven
and a million angels with drawn swords.
Get 100 such redeemed men in each of
your churches, and nothing could stand be.
fore them, for such men are generally
warm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal
prayers then. No heartless singing then.
No cold conventionalisms then.
Furthermore, the destitute children OF
the street offer a field of work compara-
tively unoccupied. The uncared-tor chill
dren are in the majority in Brooklyn and
in most of our cities. When they grow
up, if unreformed, they will outVote your
children, and they will govern your child.
rem. The whisky ring will hatch out other
whisky rings, and grog shops will kill with
their horrible stencil public sobriety, un-
less the church of God rises up with out
stretched arms and enfOlds his dying pop
ulation in her bosom. Public schools can
not do it. Blackwell's Island cannot doit.
Almshouses cannot do it. New York
Tombs and Raymond Street Jail cannot do
it. Sing Sing cannot do it. Church OF
God, wake up tC your magnificent missioRi
You can do it. Get somewhere, sOme~
how, to work.
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalry mount by putting their
left foot into the stirrup. | dont care
how you mount your war charger, if you
only get into this battle for God and get
there soon, right stirrup, or left stirrup, or
no stirrup at all. The unoccupied 'tielda
are all around us, and why should We
build on another mans foundatiOn2 That
God has called this church to esnecial
work no one can doubt. Its history has
been miraculous. God has helped us at
every step, and though the wheels Of it's
history have made many revol- ons, they
have all been forward, and yer back
ward, and now with our borders enlarged
and with important re-enforcements, We
start on q new campaign. At Sharon
Springs, nineteen years ago, while in tho
park, asked God if He had any particular
work for me to do to make it plain and
would do it. He revealed to me the style
of church We were to have, and He re-
vealed to me the architecture, and He re-
vealed to me the modes of worship, and
He revealed to me my work, and as far
as in my ignorance and weakness
have seen the right way l have tried to
walk in it. We decided that We wanted
it soul saving church, and it has been
almost q constant outpouring of the Holy
Ghost. Ye powers of darkness, We devils
in bell, we mean to snatch from your do
minion other multitudes, if God viii help
us. / have heard of what was called tho
"thundering legion" 1t was in l79 parE
OF the Roman army to which some Chris
tians belonged, and their prayers, it was
said, were answered by thunder and light
ming and hail and tempest, which overthreV
an invading army and saved the empire.
And l would TO God that this church
may be so mighty in PRAYER and work
that it would become q laundering legion
before which the forces of sin might be
restored, and the gates of hell might trem-
BILE. Now that the autumn has come, and
the Gospel ship has been repaired and en-
larged, it is time to launch her for another
voyage. Heave away now, lads! Shake out
the reefs in the foretopsOIl! Come, o
heavenly wind, and ill the canvasl Jesus
aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on tho
sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on tho
shining shore will welcome US inte hRHb0r.
"And SO it came to pass that they an
escaped safe to land"